JASPER, Mississippi — Mississippi authorities have captured an that had been missing since a truck carrying it flipped over on I-59 on Tuesday, the said.

A homeowner near Heidelberg, Mississippi, found the rhesus macaque on his property early Sunday. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife and Fisheries responded, and the monkey is now in the department’s possession. Two other monkeys remain at large.

The monkey had been among 21 macaques being transported from Tulane University’s National Biomedical Research Center on the Northshore when the truck crashed. Initial reports described the monkeys as “aggressive” and suggested they might have been infected with herpes, COVID-19, and hepatitis C.

Tulane officials quickly clarified that the monkeys were not infectious, but five of the animals

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